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Importance Of The Right To Bear Arms

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In 1791, the United States of America Second Amendment offers the people the right to bear arms. The point and purpose of the Second Amendment is the provision for militias; they were to the backing of the government for the maintenance of local public order. In the beginning of the Second Amendment the Framers of the Constitution understood militia as military: armies, and troops. Therefore the right of the U.S. citizens to bear and keep arms is built on and linked with the involvement in state militias. The reference to citizens keeping arms underscored the fact that in the 1700s, state governments could not be relied on to provide firearms to militia members, so citizens eligible serve in militias ( white males between the ages of

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